Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-24 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
Hello, Glad to see that the cause is at least confirmed now. I will look into the problems I am having soon; for the moment I am having some paper size issues. Thanks for the tip on contacting HPIJS. best regards, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: Hello, I can confirm that the 1.0 patch causes the problem. However, it may surprise you to learn that the 1.1 patch also does! I am not (yet) forcing grey colour modes; am concentrating on getting some paper size issues fixed at the moment. The source will be public at

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-23 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
Hello, I can confirm that the 1.0 patch causes the problem. However, it may surprise you to learn that the 1.1 patch also does! I am not (yet) forcing grey colour modes; am concentrating on getting some paper size issues fixed at the moment. The source will be public at some point; we're lookin

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-21 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: I can confirm that my IJS module works with the 8.01 source before Debian packages, as downloaded from packages.debian.org. It looks like it is the same bug with the KRGB patch then. So what color-model and color/gray-depth has your ijs driver got at the moment? (I suppos

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
Hello, I can confirm that my IJS module works with the 8.01 source before Debian packages, as downloaded from packages.debian.org. Hope this helps, best regards, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-21 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- "Matthew T. Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've built and used both 8.14 and 8.15 during the > development of my IJS > module so far. Both worked. I got them both from > ghostscript.com so no > KRGB patch, as you explained. if 8.14 doesn't segfault for you, that's good; but it st

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
Hello, On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 01:34 +, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Sorry - didn't notice the arch info... You can get the same version > of ghostscript you are using without the extra KRGB patch from: > http://www.ghostscript.com/ I've built and used both 8.14 and 8.15 during the development of my

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-20 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hi Matthew, 2nd thought - building ghostscript from source is a bit daunting for first-timers, but debian does ship all the rpm tools, (if you just do "apt-get install rpm" or something) so you should be able to do it in a easier way by rebuilding the source rpm for your arch. http://sourceforge.ne

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-20 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: I'm afraid I won't be able to do that for a while; I was going to last night but my desktop's monitor decided to break. I can't test the packages on my laptop because it's not the same architecture as the packages :-). If you have the sources, I can build them, though.

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
Hello, On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 19:55 +, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > What do you mean by "can accept colour"? ghostscript's ijs device-independent > in DeviceGray with that number of gray-depth. It is all part > of the IJS protocol - your ijs device driver can tell ghostscript's > ijs core to send da

Bug#294430: ijs driver.

2005-02-19 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Matthew, > Thanks for the update. As it happens, the IJS module for the Braille > embosser I'm working on can accept colour data (but converts it to > greyscale). This is because the embosser is capable of printing at a > number of different ``intensity'' levels. So it's not usually a 1-bit > de